One Look BackW. Gardner, Darton & Company, Limited, 1912 - 368 páginas |
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... thought it time to close the orgies . At this mo- ment the gasfitter discovered the fire issuing from the cracks of the ceiling , and , amid the wildest shrieking and confusion , the drunken , panic- stricken masquers rushed to the ...
... thought it time to close the orgies . At this mo- ment the gasfitter discovered the fire issuing from the cracks of the ceiling , and , amid the wildest shrieking and confusion , the drunken , panic- stricken masquers rushed to the ...
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... thought an excellent method of lubricating the first interview , for the Doctor to ask where one's home was , and to state , quite irrespective of the fact , that he was born in the same neighbourhood ; having ascertained that one was ...
... thought an excellent method of lubricating the first interview , for the Doctor to ask where one's home was , and to state , quite irrespective of the fact , that he was born in the same neighbourhood ; having ascertained that one was ...
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... thought that they would recover or die , had an established place in our annals ; and it is not easy to describe the rapture of hearing a passage which , as repeated by one's schoolfellows , had seemed too absurd for credence ...
... thought that they would recover or die , had an established place in our annals ; and it is not easy to describe the rapture of hearing a passage which , as repeated by one's schoolfellows , had seemed too absurd for credence ...
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... thought . At Easter , 1868 , Matthew Arnold came to live at Harrow , with a view of placing his three boys in the School . The eldest of the three was the in- valid to whom his father referred in a letter quoted in my first chapter : I ...
... thought . At Easter , 1868 , Matthew Arnold came to live at Harrow , with a view of placing his three boys in the School . The eldest of the three was the in- valid to whom his father referred in a letter quoted in my first chapter : I ...
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... thought more of Imperial than of Papal Rome , of Greek than of English Republics . But in the summer of 1868 , Mr. Gladstone's first attack on the Irish Church caused such an excitement as I had never before known . It was a pitched ...
... thought more of Imperial than of Papal Rome , of Greek than of English Republics . But in the summer of 1868 , Mr. Gladstone's first attack on the Irish Church caused such an excitement as I had never before known . It was a pitched ...
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Página 153 - We may live without poetry, music, and art ; We may live without conscience, and live without heart ; We may live without friends ; we may live without books ; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books, — what is knowledge but grieving ? He may live without hope, — what is hope but deceiving ? He may live without love, — what is passion but pining ? But where is the man that can live without dining ? XX.
Página 92 - Or will you, youths of England, make your country again a royal throne of kings; a sceptred isle,* for all the world a source of light, a centre of peace...
Página 8 - We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, — if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass — the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows — the same redbreasts that we used to call " God's birds," because they did no harm to the precious crops.
Página 92 - There is a destiny now possible to us, the highest ever set before a nation to be accepted or refused. We are still undegenerate in race; a race mingled of the best northern blood.
Página 180 - The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No ! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave.
Página 106 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Página 232 - Chiefs, graced with scars, and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints, who taught, and led, the way to heaven.
Página 328 - Let no man think that sudden in a minute all is accomplished and the work is done; — Though with thine earliest dawn thou shouldst begin it scarce were it ended in thy setting sun.
Página 104 - It is therefore our business carefully to cultivate in our minds, to rear to the most perfect vigour and maturity, every sort of generous and honest feeling that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct of the commonwealth; so to be patriots, as not to forget that we are gentlemen.
Página 9 - But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.